ESPE Abstracts

Background: Living with type 1 diabetes especially in developing countries can feel overwhelming for parents and children because constant vigilance is required for proper care with inadequacy of resources.Objectives and hypothesis: Our aim was to investigate the frequency of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes and their association with demographic, diabetes-specific, and family-functioning risk factors.<p class="abs...

Background: Type 1 diabetes (T1DM) is a chronic disease with many chronic complications as nephropathy, retinopathy and neuropathy or macrovascular complications as coronary artery disease and peripheral vascular disease due to the effects of hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia on vascular endothelial function. Moreover, in patients with T1DM, hypertension (HTN) is a significant contributor to the development of both micro- and macrovascular complications.<p cl...

Background/aims: Several studies demonstrated rapid growth during the first year of life in infants with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) which has a considerable effect on final adult height. Whether decreased height potential is caused by inadequate suppression of adrenal androgens, excess steroid therapy or salt wasting itself is a matter of debate. Thus, we aimed to analyze growth pattern in infants with CAH during first year of life and the effect of therapy on those ...

Introduction: Barakat Syndrome (HDR Syndrome) components are hypoparathyroidism (H), sensorineural deafness (D) and renal disease (R) caused by an autosomal dominant inheritance, being mostly associated with deletions in chromosome 10p14 or mutations in GATA3 gene.Case Report: An 11 years old female, was born to non-consanguineous parents. She came to an emergency department complaining of the occurrence of one attack of tonic convulsion...

Background: Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in infants and children in underdeveloped countries. Secondary myelofibrosis has been reported as a complication of severe rickets and in these children anemia, myeloid metaplasia and bone aplasia strongly suggested myelofibrosis.Case report: We report a case of myelofibrosis in two years old boy with severe vitamin D deficiency rickets and hepatosplenomegaly. He presented wi...

Introduction: Thyroid autoimmunity in chronic urticaria is a growing process and maybe manifested before concomitant with, or several years after the appearance of the urticaria. The association of chronic urticaria with autoimmune thyroid disease has frequently been reported in adults. Limited cases have been reported in children.Case Report: Here we describe an eleven years old girl. Who was born to non-consanguineous ...

Introduction: Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a group of rare hereditary collagen disorders. Vertebral compression fractures and vertebral deformities are well-known complications of OI. Intravenous zoledronic acid is widely used to improve the bone mineral density in children with OI. This study aimed at assessment of the changes in vertebral compression and shape in children who received regular zoledronic acid infusions.Method...

Background: Research has shown that some of the endocrine disorders in patients with sickle cell disease include delayed growth and pubertal development. No study has been done in Kenya to investigate whether this applies for the local children with sickle cell anaemia.Objective: To describe growth and pubertal development in children and adolescents with Sickle cell disease.Methodology: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study...

Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is the largest single entity that leads to male under-masculinization. Although adequate serum concentrations of testosterone exclude a defect in testosterone biosynthesis, a low testosterone value at baseline does not always exclude PAIS. Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), also called Müllerian inhibiting substance or factor, is secreted in high amounts by the immature Sertoli cell; it is negatively regulated by testosterone.<p c...

Objectives and Study: To compare the bone mineral density (BMD) between children with cow milk protein allergy (CMPA) and those who are healthy as control subjectsMethods: This study was carried out on forty children with cow milk protein allergy attending the Alexandria University Children's Hospital nutrition clinic and compared to forty apparently healthy children of matched age and sex as a control group. Anthro...